You’re not a second-class person, are you? Well, if that’s how you see yourself, then I have no questions for you, and this post/video isn’t for you. But if you happen to be a normal person and don’t believe that the main streets of the capitals exist for the masters alone—Putin and United Russia—while everyone else is supposed to keep to the outskirts and watch their step, then here you go.
An address to Muscovites and Petersburgers on the eve of the May 5 protest.
Unfortunately, there are many reasons to join this protest. And there will be more with each passing day.
But right now I want to say that for me personally, one reason alone is enough to take to the streets: three days ago, Sobyanin, Poltavchenko, United Russia, all the crooks and thieves, marched proudly with their banners down the very streets I am forbidden to walk on. The country and the city belong to them, and we are serfs. We’re not allowed.
I will not tolerate this. I hope you won’t either.
In Moscow, gather tomorrow at Pushkin Square (or anywhere on Tverskaya Street from Pushkin Square to Manezhnaya Square, if getting to Pushkin Square is difficult).
In St. Petersburg—at Palace Square. Addresses for the protests in all other cities are here.